Sam Schechner

RT @jackclarkSF: Fun story about the Frontier Red Team at Anthropic. I expect coming up with better and more realistic threat models for fr…

Meet the "Frontier Red Team" at Anthropic, trying to push their latest AI models to do catastrophic things -- in order to stop them before it's too late: https://t.co/HBqGx58Vfd via @WSJ

RT @WSJ: Meta plans to give European users of Instagram and Facebook the option of receiving what it says are “less personalized ads,” in a…

RT @DanaMattioli: PUBLICATION DAY! Today my book "The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power"…

RT @SMeichtry: It’s been one year since our colleague Evan Gershkovich was wrongfully detained in Russia for doing his job: journalism. #IR…

RT @MichelReuters: In Paris too, journalists ran in solidarity with Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained in…

RT @NBisserbe: Friday will mark one year since our friend and @WSJ colleague Evan Gershkovich was wrongfully detained in Russia. Today we…

Phil Schiller, Apple’s former chief marketing officer and confidant to Steve Jobs, has emerged as the most ardent defender of the company’s "walled garden" https://t.co/fYdx32cAe7 via @aatilley & @kimmackrael

Mistral AI says a new model it's releasing today performs comparably in reasoning capability with GPT4 and Gemini Ultra -- but cost a fraction to train. More on the 9-month old startup and its 31-year-old CEO, Arthur Mensch here: https://t.co/u3t9C71lFu

It was a fascinating discussion—thanks for doing it

Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith

Great talking to @samschech on the links between AI & surveillance, the circular flows of $ that see cloud cos blurring the line between investment & acquisition in AI, and how Signal competes with the bigs while rejecting the surveillance biz model 💐👇 https://t.co/qn5U9cbBs9

RT @georgia_wells: Here's how TikTok brings the Israel/Gaza war home to children on the app: With: @samschech @rob_barry @jasonleefrench @…

RT @dseetharaman: I had plans tonight, not that anyone cares. @berber_jin1 and I covering this big twist today. Employee all-hands underway…

RT @jasonrdean: Huge congrats to @JeffHorwitz on the publication of his book about Facebook/Meta Platforms, 'Broken Code,' the culmination…

Activists concerned about existential risk from AI have come up with a publicity stunt to protest this locked-down summit: hire video trucks to drive alongside delegates’ busses en route to Bletchley Park. https://t.co/LKnwBcDuRW

I’m here in Bletchley Park, reporting from the sidelines of the UK’s AI Safety Summit. The first dispatch: ‘Take Science Fiction Seriously’: World Leaders Sound Alarm on AI https://t.co/2SBmRO7WkI

Meta's going with the prices we reported earlier this month for its no-ads subscription service in Europe. And pausing ads for Europeans under 18 as soon as next week: https://t.co/MlSmTEhBuG

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Would people pay nearly $14 a month to use Instagram on their phones without ads? Meta is pitching a plan to require European users to buy subscriptions or agree to personalized ads https://t.co/D4v8LwGdKZ

Internal Meta docs show Instagram has been filtering comments from Palestinian territories more aggressively than those from Israel or nearby Arab countries—sparking concerns among some employees. https://t.co/T7B4ZhJL58

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In trying to prevent Instagram and Facebook from contributing to further violence in the midst of the Israel-Hamas war, Meta has been wrestling internally with how to best enforce its content rules https://t.co/feyXmHX9QN